Era of Blindness

The Era of Blindness

We are living in 21st century-the era of blindness we can call it in one way for our people. Nostradamus has also said that Bharat will turn out to be the super power in the world. Could you see that prospect of Bharat? If no then you are erroneous and if yes then also you are mistaken in sense of nearer future. We people chase for very rapid progress but at the same time we are wiping out our footprints. Here I mean, we disregard our healthy and wealthy heritage. We are the sons of such a great nation who has guided and enlightened the whole world for centuries. It was Bharat only what has been the centre point of attraction for many foreign communities for years and years. That was the main reason that we have been victims of many attacks by the many communities from all over the world. The attacks continue even today in this era but all the time we follow the blind faith in others and we lose our golden inheritance day by day. Centuries back it happened in some dissimilar ways and today it’s happening in another way. Why don’t we care for our affluence, our heritage? This indicates that slowly and gradually we are moving back towards our past. If you get a product with the logo of other foreign country then you feel privileged unnecessarily and you don’t worth our own products. The world is using our ‘Ved’ and ‘Upanishad’ and all other resources as the reference for their researches. For example Aayuraved, foreign countries are awakening to hold the benefits of our Aayurved, but we….! We feel that it’s not highly preferable. In fashion we blindly follow the trends of others. In food we don’t be much cautious about our dishes where as other nations have become alert about the side effects of junk food. Others are being crazy for our things but we are not. Where shall we end up this blind run-way. Don’t you feel that even in new year celebrations we are giving more weightage to December-end celebration compared to ‘Diwali-new year’?
Let’s make it a new resolution to stop running a lamb’s race and to tread our own way in our own style.

--NIKHIL JOSHI
(Chief Editor, ‘e-patra’)
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A Poem

This poem was nominated for best poem of 2005, written by an African child.

When I born, I black
When I grow up, I black
When I go in sun, I black
When I scared, I black
When I sick, I black
And when I die, I still black
And you white fella...
When you born, you pink
When you grow up, you white
When you go in sun, you red
When you cold, you blue
When you scared, you yellow
When you sick, you green
And when you die, you grey…
And you calling me colored?
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Dreams Unlimited...

Dreams Unlimited…


“You see things and you say-‘why?’, but I dream things that never were; and say-‘why not?’”
George Bernard Shaw (in ‘Back to Methuselah’)

Dare to dream….and dream to dare in life. Gandhi dared to dream to give British a strong fight of non-violence and history knows what happened afterwards. After lots of failures in life Lincoln continued daring to dream and one day came when his dream came true. Einstein dreamt to dare and he got success in his field. Napoleon kept himself daring and dreaming….he proved what he was. It is said that a goal is a dream with deadline. We always keep ourselves dreaming about many good things and it would surely result in some great deed. Dreams are source of inspiration and motivation as well. One who dreams can do something better than one who doesn’t have any dream.
While dreaming, one should keep in mind that there is a very thin line of difference between dream and day-dream. Dreams should be founded on the pillars of reality. You must not underestimate yourself while you are dreaming. Aim always at higher goal and put all your efforts to make that dream come true. On the basis of one’s dreams you can predict his tomorrow. Even in the time of difficulties in life, your dream can feed you. As Aeschylus, a Greek philosopher has also said in his work ‘Agamemnon’- ‘I know how men in exile feed on dreams of hope.’ If you have a dream in your life, believe me you can do anything in this world. Poor are those who don’t have any dream. Dream can give you a reason to your breathing, dream can enlighten your path though it’s full of obstacles, dream can lead you to fulfillment of your life and it is the dream only which can make you feel alive every single day.
Shakespeare has also said – “The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.”
GCET LANGUAGE CLUB was also such a dream that I dreamt to dare once and now it’s this dream only which makes me dare to dream about e-patra and many more activities in the club.


--NIKHIL JOSHI
(Chief Editor, ‘e-patra’)